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"When I pointed out that you're ruining your songs this way you say that the distortion is only minimal. Even if you're right, I still don't get why you like this idea -- you've still got to burn and then rip your music in order to break it out of FairPlay, which you don't have to do with unrestricted MP3s. Don't you see some added benefit in that?"
First of all, Farhad, you said songs bought through iTunes can only be played on Apple equipment. And that is wrong.
Second, you've changed the subject to MP3 isn't as good a format.
Third, you're now asking people why they don't appreciate that you can get this faulty format from the start.
Hmmm ... You want to slam Apple for letting users convert CD audio to MP3 but you want to praise Amazon for offering MP3 files.
You're annoying me ...